Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.